From: Wayne Davison Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 06:26:25 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Mention a few more news items. X-Git-Tag: v3.2.0pre1~129 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a7175ee0297dc4f8c8680626c3d3f0d4bc6b108f;p=thirdparty%2Frsync.git Mention a few more news items. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d29ea3c4..edf59452 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -33,8 +33,19 @@ Changes since 3.1.3: - Fixed a crash in the --iconv code. + - Fixed a bug in the writing of the batch.sh file (w/--write-batch) when + the source & destination args were not last on the command-line. + ENHANCEMENTS: + - Various checksum enhancements, including x86_64 optimizations for the + rolling checksum, optimizations for the MD5 checksums, the addition of + xxhash checksums, and a simple checksum negotation heuristic that will + ensure that it is easier to add improved checksum algorithms in the + future. Currently the x86_64 optimizations require the use of the + --enable-simd flag to configure, but they will probably be enabled by + default in the near future. + - Improved the --atimes patch and promoted it to be in the release. - Added --open-noatime option to open files using O_NOATIME. @@ -42,7 +53,7 @@ Changes since 3.1.3: - Improved the --write-devices patch and promoted it to be in the release. - Added openssl support to the rsync-ssl script via its renamed helper - script, rsync-ssl-rsh. Install both bash scripts by default now + script, rsync-ssl-rsh. Both bash scripts are now installed by default (removing the install-ssl-client make target). Rsync was also enhanced to set the RSYNC_PORT environment variable when running a daemon-over-rsh script. Its value is the user-specified port number (set via --port or an